The Worst of Road Signs

[vtk]

There are one or two signs in Grove City, OH which identify London — Groveport Road (OH 665) as "LONDON-GRVPT RD".  Other abbreviations in use within Grove City are "SR 665" and "London-Groveport Rd".

The sign at the intersection of Parsons and 317 says "London-Grovport" as well. 

Odd, I drive through that intersection regularly and I hadn't noticed.  Grovport almost has to be a typo.  (I believe that would be a FCEO sign, and they don't typically use nonstandard abbreviations...)

[architect77]

This same gantry can be found in The Best of Road Signs from about 2 years ago. It used to be fabulous, but NCDOT keeps changing the control cities over and over. "Sanford" replaced "Raleigh", I mean come on. Now this signage looks horrible:

[architect77]

More blasphemy:

[agentsteel53]

I think any mention of I-73 (or I-74 east of Cincy) can automatically qualify as "the worst of road signs".

[architect77]

I think any mention of I-73 (or I-74 east of Cincy) can automatically qualify as "the worst of road signs".

I-73/I-74 is a work in progress in NC. I think they are upgrading an old highway to interstate standards from the Virginia border down through central NC.

[agentsteel53]

I-73/I-74 is a work in progress in NC. I think they are upgrading an old highway to interstate standards from the Virginia border down through central NC.

73 is only mildly silly, because there just plain are no odd numbers available, and I suppose having a second I-89 or I-91 is just as silly... but I-74 is a laughingstock of a number, born of bizarre political expediency and the realization that if we have US-74 here (southern NC), and I-74 there (Cincy), then why not pretend we're gonna connect them with one number - and give it a red, white, and blue shield.  wait, what?

[Billy F 1988]

This is an atrocity. The most disgusting piece of American road signage I've ever seen.

[silverback1065]

This is an atrocity. The most disgusting piece of American road signage I've ever seen.

Eww what an awful sign!

[Billy F 1988]

Yeah, tell me about it! It's why I said it's the most disgusting piece of American road signage I've ever seen. It'd kill this thing with fire, goats, shredders, i can name any method to get rid of this miserable assembly and come up with a better one.

[Zeffy]

This is an atrocity. The most disgusting piece of American road signage I've ever seen.

Yuck. All caps Series E(M) with the first letter larger than the rest? And is "Ave" really in Series D (maybe C)? Who the hell did they hire to design that sign?

[Billy F 1988]

Honestly, I have no clue, but whoever did this needs to be taken into a dark corner and be beaten with a switch to the ass! And, to answer your question on the "Ave", that looks like C to me. I mean, the least MDT would have done was this:

Left panel:
Toole Ave
Left Lane Only
-down arrow-

Right panel:
W Broadway
Right Lane Only
-down arrow-

This would be a pretty good challenge for people here to redesign this gantry and show it in Road Related Illustrations.

[1995hoo]

Not a road sign, but this is so asinine I had to post it. There are a number of these posted around the Ospreys Golf Club in Woodbridge, Virginia. The entire body of water is visible behind the sign–you can see the cart path beyond the wall on the right–and it's not even deep enough to come up to my knee (I'm about six feet tall). Who the hell would even attempt to go BOATING here?

This also happens to be the largest body of water next to which any of these signs is posted.

[agentsteel53]

isn't there a joke somewhere of someone posting a "NO ICE FISHING" sign in the middle of the desert?

[xcellntbuy]

It is possible that the signs are a required warning by an insurance company because someone or some entity (an HOA, for example) has been sued by an idiot who thought he was entitled to act like a moron without common sense.

[route56]

isn't there a joke somewhere of someone posting a "NO ICE FISHING" sign in the middle of the desert?

From http://www.arizonaroads.com/wrong/wrong6.html

[broadhurst04]

Not a road sign, but this is so asinine I had to post it. There are a number of these posted around the Ospreys Golf Club in Woodbridge, Virginia. The entire body of water is visible behind the sign–you can see the cart path beyond the wall on the right–and it's not even deep enough to come up to my knee (I'm about six feet tall). Who the hell would even attempt to go BOATING here?

This also happens to be the largest body of water next to which any of these signs is posted.

The sign is there is case somebody's kid wanders off and drowns because they go into the water to swim, get their toy boat back, or get their fishing pole back. It's Defense Exhibit A in the lawsuit filed by the grieving parents.

[vdeane]

If judges would just apply common sense in throwing out stupid lawsuits such signs (and a bunch of other things) wouldn't be needed 

[cpzilliacus]

If judges would just apply common sense in throwing out stupid lawsuits such signs (and a bunch of other things) wouldn't be needed 

I think Hoo might agree with me that Virginia is not exactly a plaintiff-friendly state when it comes to things like contingent-fee personal injury lawsuits.

[1995hoo]

If judges would just apply common sense in throwing out stupid lawsuits such signs (and a bunch of other things) wouldn't be needed 

I think Hoo might agree with me that Virginia is not exactly a plaintiff-friendly state when it comes to things like contingent-fee personal injury lawsuits.

Indeed.

I understand why the sign is there out of paranoia. As an attorney (admitted in Virginia, too) I deplore the attorneys who bring the sorts of lawsuits that prompt people to post those types of signs.

[KEK Inc.]

Saw this eye-soar on our way to the trailhead. 

[CentralCAroadgeek]

Saw this eye-soar on our way to the trailhead. 

Oh my god, I saw so many of those when I went up there last summer, mostly around Port Angeles. It seems as though WSDOT can't figure out how to make a proper US shield...

[KEK Inc.]

They had a conventional MUTCD one south of WA-20, but they do seem to have problems with them.  Even for US-2 and US-12.

[silverback1065]

Saw this eye-soar on our way to the trailhead. 

Oh my god, I saw so many of those when I went up there last summer, mostly around Port Angeles. It seems as though WSDOT can't figure out how to make a proper US shield...

I thought US 101 was signed north south, where does it go east west?

[deathtopumpkins]

I thought US 101 was signed north south, where does it go east west?

Going around the Olympic Peninsula, one heads first North, then East, then South (or vice-versa) on US 101.

[CentralCAroadgeek]

I thought US 101 was signed north south, where does it go east west?

Going around the Olympic Peninsula, one heads first North, then East, then South (or vice-versa) on US 101.

There's also a stretch of US-101 in SoCal where it is signed east/west. I know for sure it's signed that way in the San Fernando Valley, don't know about anything between there and Goleta (Haven't been on that stretch for years).